Related ongoing thread:<p><i>Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30552570" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30552570</a> - March 2022 (179 comments)
From a very quick glance, it seems that Interslavic is to Slovio what Interlingua is to Esperanto.<p>Esperanto is a language that's simple and easy to learn (at least if you're familiar with romance languages), but not necessarily easy to understand if you're not familiar with it.<p>On the other hand, if you're familiar with 2 or 3 romance languages, try to read <a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua" rel="nofollow">https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua</a>. Even if you've never heard of Interlingua, you'll probably understand most of it. Interlingua is optimized for easy understanding, which means that it adopts common words from romance languages even if they're not totally consistent with the rest of the language. This means that ease of understanding comes at the cost of language consistency and ease of learning. For people in central Europe, I'd say Esperanto is easier to learn (to speak) and Interlingua is easier to understand.
It might be interesting to compare these conlangs with actual Slavic languages in terms of pan-Slavic understandability. Slavic languages close to the "center" between western, eastern and southern could score pretty well, like Slovak.
As someone speaking bosnian, I can read & understand it. Feels weird having to replace "y" as "i" in my head as we don't have "y" in our alphabet, and also some cases feel off.
I like the idea, never heard of it before but from I always lived thinking that reducing variance between Slavic languages is needed because (as a Pole) I understand context but it is hard to perform conversation with different pairs (Slavian PL for example). Good to know that that project exist, maybe it is an niche to use some ml/ai methods to generate pretrained model for generating speech etc. Especially in huggingface like era it could be relatively easy and helpful.And also catchy, just look at that buzzwords ' AI help to unify slavic languages'.
That is amazing and is melting my brain. Not sure how useful it can be for normal communication but would work great for signs and notices as you'd only need one version to cover a quarter of Europe. It's a really well made page, it's fascinating to see the process how is was derived.<p>Who is funding this? Bless them.
This language is very similar to my mother tongue Slovenian.<p>There was even a theory in the 19th century that Slovenian was the ancestor of Old church Slavonic (Panonian theory).
I wonder if it could be integrated with the Cyrillic Polish idea, would be the ultimate conlang, ultimately exotic for non-slavs and possibly practical.